Countdown to War

by Geoffrey Cox

Geoffrey Cox was a foreign correspondent in Austria when Hitler declared the Anschluss. He reported the outbreak of war from Paris, the phoney war from France, Belgium and Holland, and the Winter War when Russia invaded Finland. This is his personal account of Europe in the years 1938-1940.

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 18, 1990

About the author

Geoffrey Cox, war correspondent, Chief Intelligence Officer of the New Zealand Army, diplomat, assistant editor of the News Chronicle and writer, became one of the founding fathers of television journalism. He was Editor of Independent Television News from 1956 to 1968 and started News at Ten in 1967. Later he was Deputy Chairman of Yorkshire Television, and Chairman of Tyne Tees Television and of the London radio news station LBC.